Repost with your home river. The Thames - endlessly fascinating. Not like me!

Don’t let Farage, Badenoch, or any of their cronies tell you otherwise. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

THREAD/Today marks the 85th anniversary of one of the more notorious incidents from the London Blitz, which sadly was an exception to the usual rule that Underground stations were safe and secure places to sit (or sleep) through an air raid. on 11 January 1941, the alert had recently sounded and...

Pre-match offering at The Green Goddess!

Thanks to @darryl1974.bsky.social, @blitzwalker.bsky.social & @vincerai.bsky.social for taking me to my first ever @charltonathletic.bsky.social match as well as the excellent @chathmuseum.bsky.social! And thanks for the wonderful @modmag.bsky.social zine! Fingers crossed for the cup match tonight!

This⬇️ There is zero reason why any decent government, organisation or individual should retain even a dormant presence on Twitter. The time for excuses for remaining has long passed.

And that, England cricketers, is how you bat in a test match. Grind the opposition into the dust.

Happy Easter everyone!

So much for Dry January.

In case we get overtaken by events later, I’d like to wish all of you nice people out there a happy and healthy 2026. We can only hope for better times ahead.

Another excellent thread ⬇️

Another excellent thread from Ian which gives us a fireman’s view of the Blitz. ⬇️

THREAD/As mentioned earlier, today marks the 85th anniversary of the "Second Great Fire of London", an incendiary raid that started fires to spread over an area larger than the original Great Fire of 1666. It was raid that led to a change in the wartime legislation that enforced businesses...

The Man in the Gimp Mask #MakeAFilmCheaper

Ken Hur #MakeAFilmCheaper

Planet of the Ape #MakeAFilmCheaper

Fridge on the River Kwai #MakeAFilmCheaper

Today marks the 85th anniversary of the Luftwaffe's fire raid on the City of London, which became known as the "Second Great Fire of London". Here we see a group of London firefighters in Cheapside on the morning of 30 December after no doubt an exhausting night at work. This raid also gave rise to

Saw a Mummers play in the pub tonight, in which Donald Trump met his end by being run through with a sword (although he did seem to be revived later in the performance, unfortunately!)

Book the open top bus, plan the parade, knighthoods all round! I actually haven’t enjoyed this test match at all - it’s almost been like one of those joke, beer matches that they used to play when a club game finished early, reversing the batting order and letting everyone have a bowl.

I see the clown car cricket has returned again after the relative sanity of Adelaide.

The big man is on his way!

I’ve managed to survive until tonight without going on a major pre-Christmas bender. Have made up for it……

I'll be less active on socials over Christmas, so in case I don't get the chance again, I'd like to wish all of my friends and followers on here the Season's Greetings and sincerely hope, like these folks in 1940, that better times are coming sometime soon.

Another excellent piece here on the demise of Bazball. apple.news/A2SR2_SgIQm6...

I can’t quite believe what I’m hearing from Zak Crawley.

One for my American friends…..

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

I’ve given up on watching/listening to the cricket overnight. It would seem that I have chosen wisely.

Excellent thread here ⬇️

What a vile excuse for a human being Trump is.

What actor’s facial expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?

I must’ve walked through Victoria Embankment Gardens so many times without noticing this memorial to the men of the Imperial Camel Corps before!

After the tragic events at the football the before, I needed to detox and release my inner geek yesterday by playing buses at the annual heritage bus running day in and around Bromley. As always, it didn’t disappoint, especially when the “mystery bus” turned out to be one I’d never ridden on before.

Going pretty much as predicted so far.

177 to even make the Aussies bat again. I suspect that any target England set, will be at best, nominal!

Well done Joe Root. Pity about the rest of them!

Thank you to all colleagues who gave wonderful feedback in relation to the discussion with Woody on @WW2TV on You Tube for the episode entitled - The Importance and Impact of Football in WW2. You can listen back to our discussion @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAD3...

A sad day, only 62. Robin played one season for Ickenham CC as a 17-year-old and made an immediate impression. A seriously good man too as well as a fine cricketer.

Movember all done and dusted. £430 raised by me and over £900 when we included the other lads from the cricket club. Thanks to each and every one who donated.

“You big titty mama”

A happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends. I hope you’re able to enjoy it, especially those enduring life across the Pond at present.

26 days in now and I don’t think it’s going to get much better now! movember.com/m/15458414?m...

Here is my peace plan for Ukraine/Russia. 1. Russia gets the fuck out of Ukraine. 2. Putin goes on trial in the Hague. 3. Russia pays everyone for everything. 4. Trump gets impeached, convicted, and sent to jail. Thanks for your attention to this matter.

You can have all the training camps and practice sessions in the world but nothing prepares you better than actually playing, so going into a test series with just one half-assed practice match is always going to have this outcome. Arrogance off the scale from England, as per.

England being absolutely slaughtered now and deservedly so.

Am I the only one who thinks that test cricket has been reduced to clown car status?

Wake up to watch test match, checks score, roll over and take another couple hours. Well batted lads.